Abstract
This paper is about a peculiar aspect of the organization of the immigrant groups – the cultural repertoires – and their relationship with the communicational substrate inherent to the current globalization process, marked by intense human mobility and the advancement of ICTs. It considers cultural mediations and symbolic exchanges mediated or not in the construction of subjective spaces and identities and explores processes of re-signification and re-symbolization based on concepts of transnationalism, ethnicity, diasporic community and interculturalism. Among the applied research techniques, of qualitative approach, are semi-open interviews, discourse and content analysis, systematic observation and bibliographic research. The main results point out the immigrant subject, by using artistic and cultural activities, become more aware of the social forces and interests that shape him/her as well as his/her role in the process of social change.
Keywords
Migratory identities; Exchange, cultural re-signification and re-symbolization; Immigrant organizations; Parties and celebrations; ICTs